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General Purpose Hardware Development Tools

 
     
       
 

8-bit Mid-Range PIC® Development Boards:

 
   

The Mid-Range Family includes members of the PIC12 and PIC16 families.

 
   

- These products feature a single interrupt with numerous analog, motor control and basic communication peripherals.

 
       
 

8-bit PIC18 Development Boards:

 
   

The PIC18 Family of microcontrollers includes the Traditional PIC18, the PIC18 J-series and the PIC18 K-series.

 
   

- These products feature an additional interrupt over our Mid-Range products with more memory along with advanced communication peripherals such as USB.

 
       
 

16-bit PIC24® and dsPIC® Development Boards:

 
   

The 16-bit Family of microcontrollers includes the PIC24F and PIC24H along with the dsPIC30F and dsPIC33F line of Digital Signal Controllers (DSC).

 
       
 

32-bit PIC32™ Development Boards:

 
   

The PIC32 Family of microcontrollers are Microchip’s highest performance MCUs that are completely pin, peripheral and software compatible with our 16-bit PIC MCU families

 
       
 

Debuggers and Programmers

 
       
       
 

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8-bit Mid-Range PIC® Development Boards

 
     
 

PICDEM™ Lab Development Kit

 
   

Part Number: DM163035

 
         
   

Designed to provide a comprehensive development and learning platform for Microchip’s 6, 8, 14, 18 and 20-pin PIC® Microcontrollers. A kit of common discreet components along with connection wires of varying lengths enable the user to develop circuits on the solderless prototyping area that can then be interfaced with the included PIC MCUs. Lab manuals are provided as a free download featuring an introduction to 4 of our most common peripherals. These manuals are provided in both a C version and a version using Matrix Multimedia’s Flowcode V3 Visual Programming Environment (VPE). A free lite version of Flowcode V3 is also provided.

 
         
   

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PICDEM™ Lab Development Board

     

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Component kit

     

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PICkit™ 2 Programmer/Debugger

     

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PIC16F690 (20-pin)

     

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PIC16F88 (18-pin)

     

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PIC16F616 (14-pin)

     

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PIC12F615 (8-pin)

     

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PIC10F206 (6-pin) in an 8-pin PDIP package for debugging

     

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CD containing a comprehensive user’s guide, labs, application examples and a number of additional tutorials.

     
       
   

View the video “PICDEM Lab Development Kit”

 
 

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PICDEM™ Mechatronics Demo Board

   

Part Number: DM163029

       
   

The PICDEM™ Mechatronics demonstration board is an easy-to-use mechatronics development and demonstration platform. Mechatronics refers to implementing intelligent control in a mechanical system. Learn how to use PIC® microcontrollers to enhance or replace a mechanical design.

       
   

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PICDEM™ Mechatronics Board

     

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PIC16F917 Microcontroller

     

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Sample kit including the PIC16F690 and PIC12F509

     

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Microchip screwdriver

     

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10 wire jumpers

     

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PICDEM Mechatronics CD containing a user’s guide, project source code (in assembly) and PIC MCU Communicator GUI (serial interface example)

       
   

Read more about this kit with: the “PICDEM™ Mechatronics Board Product Overview”

         
 

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8-bit PIC18 Development Boards

   
 

PIC18 Development Kit

   

Part Number: DM183032

       
   

Supports dozens of our general purpose PIC18 families along with connectivity to a variety of our PICtail™ accessory daughter boards.

       
   

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A PIC18 Explorer Board

     

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PICkit™ 3 Debugger/Programmer

     

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9V Universal Power Supply

     

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PIC18F8722 and PIC18F87J11 microcontrollers

         
 

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16-bit PIC® and dsPIC® Development Boards

   
 

Explorer 16 Development Kit

   

Part Number: DV164037

       
   

The Explorer 16 is a low cost, efficient development board to evaluate the features and performance of Microchip's PIC24 Microcontroller, the dsPIC Digital Signal Controller (DSC) families, and the 32-bit PIC32 devices.

       
   

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Explorer 16 Development Board

     

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MPLAB® ICD 3 in-circuit debugger

     

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PIC24FJ128GA010 Microcontroller

     

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dsPIC33FJ256GP710 Digital Signal Controller

         
 

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dsPICDEM 1.1 Plus General Purpose Demo Board

   

Part Number: DM300024

       
   

The dsPICDEM 1.1 Plus General Purpose development board is a low cost development tool to become familiar with the dsPIC30F/33F and PIC24H 16-bit architecture, high performance peripherals and powerful instruction set.

Features an active demonstration program loaded on the installed dsPIC30F6014A device. Program features: temperature and voltage measurements, frequency domain characteristics of a sine wave signal generated on-board from a digital potentiometer, FIR and IIR digital filter selections and DTMF tone generation using the Codec interface peripheral.

 
   

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dsPICDEM 1.1 Plus demo board

     

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dsPIC30F6014A Digital Signal Controller

 
   

View the webseminar “Basic dsPIC Development Tools”

   
 

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Evidence FLEX Base Boards for dsPIC

   

Part Number : TDKFLEX003 - Evidence FLEX Full Base Board for dsPIC

   

Part Number : TDKFLEX001 - Evidence FLEX Light Base Board for dsPIC

   

Part Number : TDKFLEX109 - Evidence FLEX Daughter Demo Board for dsPIC

   

Part Number : TDKFLEX110 - Evidence FLEX multibus pack

   
   

FLEX Boards enable easy and fast development of embedded applications using Microchip’s dsPIC33FJ256MC710 Digital Signal Controller. The modular architecture allows compounding a number of boards to integrate different features.

       
   

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32-bit PIC® Development Boards

   
 

PIC32MX Starter Kit

   

Part Number: DM320001

       
   

Features an integrated debugger/programmer! The PIC32 Starter Kit provides the easiest and lowest cost method to experience the PIC32 microcontroller for the first time. From the over 35 source code examples to the getting started project, users quickly learn Microchip's 32-bit family of microcontrollers and development tools. The kit includes everything needed to write, program, debug, and execute code on a high performance PIC32 microcontroller

       
   

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PIC32MX Starter Kit Board

     

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USB Mini-B Cable

     

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PIC32MX360F512L Microcontroller

   
   

View the videos:

   

Installing PIC32 Starter Kit on Windows Vista 32-bit edition (5 mins)

         
 

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PIC32™ I/O Expansion Board

   

Part Number: DM320002

       
   

Designed for connectivity with the PIC32MX Starter Kit Board described above. The PIC32 I/O Expansion Board provides Starter Kit and Starter Board users with full access to MCU signals, additional debug headers, and connection of PICtail Plus daughter cards. MCU signals are available for attaching prototype circuits or monitoring signals with logic probes. Headers are provided for connecting JTAG tools or Microchip tools using the 2-wire (ICSP) interface.

         
 

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Debuggers and Programmers

   
 

PICkit™ 3 Debug Express

   

Part Number: DV164131

       
   

Microchip’s PICkit 3 In-Circuit Debugger/Programmer uses in-circuit debugging logic incorporated into each chip with Flash memory to provide a low-cost hardware debugger and programmer. In-circuit debugging offers these benefits:

   

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Low cost

   

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Minimum of additional hardware needed for debug

   

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Expensive sockets or adapters are not required

   

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Production and post-production products can be re-flashed with firmware updates

       
   

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The PICkit 3 Debug Express includes:

     

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PICkit™ 3 Debugger/Programmer

     

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44-pin demo board with a PIC18F45k20 microcontroller

     

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CDROM that includes the following: User’s Guide, 12 Lessons in C and a debugging tutorial

         
 

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MPLAB® ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger

   

Part Number: DV164035

       
   

MPLAB® ICD 3 has improved speed as compared with MPLAB ICD 2! MPLAB® ICD 3 In-Circuit Debugger System is Microchip's most cost effective high-speed hardware debugger/programmer for Microchip Flash Digital Signal Controller (DSC) and microcontroller (MCU) devices. It debugs and programs PIC® Flash microcontrollers and dsPIC® DSCs with the powerful, yet easy-to-use graphical user interface of MPLAB Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

   
   

View the videos:

   

Microchip’s MPLAB® ICD 3

   

Getting Started with MPLAB® ICD 3

         
 

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